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Show THINGS NOT IN THE BIBLE Many Popular Quotations so Ascribed Really Had Quite Different Sources. "What a vast amount of trouble the human race might h .ve avoided if Eve hadn't eaten that apple," remarked the "grouchy ' individual when something especially displease-J him. "How do you know it was an apple?" ap-ple?" asked the accurite man. "Why, the Bible says so, doesn't It?" "No. It has come to be a popular belief that the fruit which was eaten by our first parents in the garden 'eastward in Eden' was an apple, but there is no authority for this. "It Is called simply the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil: 'And when the woman saw '.hat the tree was good for food, and that It was pleasant to the eye3, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat.' What Is there here about an apple? "A great many popular quotations are attributed to the Bible, when in fact they had other sources. " "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb' is not from the Scriptures. but from 'A Sentimental Journey to Italy.' oy Sterne. " 'In the midst of life we are In death.' which is found in the burial service, can be traced to Luther. From St. Paul's utterance. The I love of money is the root of all evil.' v.e have tw:sted the saying. 'Money is the root of evil.' 'Cleanliness is net to godliness' was Jttered by John Wesley in a sermon on dress. 'The merciful man is merciful to his beast' Is a popular rendering of the Proverb. A righteous man regardeth the life of lis beast.' 'The tongue Is an unruly :iiember' appears in the epistle of james as 'The tongue can no man 'o.rr-e; it 1b an unruly evil.' |